Ok so I downloaded the program...great it was free but can you save song and lyrics onto a floopy? My Roland is a stand along digital keyboard with an on board sequencer and floopy drive. I am not midi connect to pc. I want to save on to floopy then take it to Roland's disk.

It's me again. Sorry to be a pest, I used the VanBasco program to find all my midi files that had words. I thought the program was great to go through all of my midi files on my hard drive. It was extremely fast to view and find them. That is the good thing.

The bad is after I found the karaoke files and saved a few on a floopy and stuck it into my Roland I still had no luck with the words coming up on the LCD screen.

Midifiles with the extention ".kar" store the lyrics as a text meta event (hFF h01) in the file.
Midifiles with the extention ".mid" store the lyrics as a lyrics meta event (hFF h05) in the file (recommended by the MMA).

Your Roland needs to find lyric events in order to display the lyrics. But Van Basco Karaoke player is capable of reading .kar files as well as .mid files (which means: reading text-events as well as lyrics-events to display the lyrics).

Try to re-enter the lyrics in the midifile with Cakewalk, and save it as an ordinary midifile (.mid). Play it with your Roland and check the lyrics. This should work.